ELAINE AGNEW is a rising composer living in Ireland. She received a BBC Proms commission for double orchestra and solo flute for the premiere of Dark Hedges by the Ulster Youth Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, Sir James Galway and conductor JoAnn Falletta at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in 2012. It was a huge success, one reviewer describing it as “compelling from beginning to end.”

The Irish Chamber Orchestra opened their concert at the Konzerthaus in Berlin in January 2013 with her Strings A-Stray to celebrate the German launch of Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Dublin dancer Fiona Quilligan choreographed two of her pieces, Seagull and Statues, in her new show Pas De Chat at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.​Elaine’s many works have been performed, commissioned and broadcast worldwide by artists such as Sir James Galway, the Vogler Quartet, the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, Lontano, cellists Robert Cohen and Evžen Rattay, the European Union Chamber and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, Chamber Choir Ireland, the Kaunas Chamber Choir, violinists Isabelle Faust and Catherine Leonard, pianists Angela Hewitt and Romain Descharmes and conductors Kenneth Montgomery and Jane Glover.

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"Regreen" by Elaine AgnewPerformed by the Boston Children's Chorus and recorded at its premiere in Prague. "Regreen" is a setting of the TMF LiberArte poem ​by Irish poet Justin Quinn, chosen in this early spring month for its themes of nature and renewal, longing and liberation. With it, we wish you a Passover and Easter full of joy and hope!

TEREZÍN MUSIC FOUNDATION Executive Director Mark LudwigTMF is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the artist of Terezin with concerts, commissions, and programs in Holocaust education in Europe and the U.S.